Learning Outcomes

The following learning outcomes are foundational to all Montana Student Gumption Tour school presentations.

Students will learn The Feather story and how opportunities come into one’s life … like magic.

Students will learn the Chocolate Box story and about making good choices.

Students will be introduced to the 3 principles of Gumption.

Students will be able to state what it means to Function with Gumption.

Students will be introduced to the concept of creating and learning to live their own gump-­like life.

Middle school students will additional receive the following learning outcomes.

Students will learn and be able to describe in detail the three principles of Gumption.

Students will be introduced to the concept of life chapters and the journey of life.

Student will learn what it means to take 100% personal responsibility.

Students will learn how one’s mindset is the foundation for thinking, getting things done, and interacting with others.

Students will learn how taking 100% personal responsibility for their actions is the key to getting things done with energy, how it eliminates the habit of making excuses, and why it leads directly towards future successes.

Students will learn how taking 100% personal responsibility for their interactions with others eliminates blame, the need to think in terms of rightness/wrongness, and the spirit of greater cooperation among their fellow students.

High school students will additional receive the following learning outcomes.

Students will be able to define the major life chapters of their current and future lives.

Students will review and analyze multiple scenes from the movie Forrest Gump and discuss the five key scenes relevant to answering Forrest’s question, “Mama, what’s my destiny?”

Students will understand how their current high school life chapter is a crucial stepping stone towards all future life chapters.

Rural school students will additional receive the following learning outcomes.

Students will understand the specialness of growing up in a small community.

Students will learn that opportunity awaits all those willing to venture out into the world.

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Forrest Gump is a fictitious character created in the book Forrest Gump, Winston Groom (1986) and the movie Forrest Gump, Paramount Pictures (1994). Steve Weber has been a look-alike, impersonator, and Tribute Artist portraying Forrest Gump since 1996. Although Steve Weber worked for the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. under license as Forrest Gump from 1996 to 2011, nothing herein is intended to imply sponsorship or affiliation with either Paramount Pictures or Bubba Gump Shrimp Company.